These are the pieces that make up the third layer. They are secured to the lower (second layer) using screw, washers, and nuts.
Some of the pieces are captured rather than screw tightened, which allows those pieces to free float to some degree.
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These are the pieces that make up the third layer. They are secured to the lower (second layer) using screw, washers, and nuts.
Some of the pieces are captured rather than screw tightened, which allows those pieces to free float to some degree.
This is the second layer which the motor bracket/mount attaches to (in this photo the motor bracket is install backwards). Again, this layer is secured to the lower or first layer with adhesive as a laminated joint.
After gluing the first two layers together the rest of the chassis is bolt together.
TWO THINGS!
1. I've learned more about these Tifosi chassis than I ever needed to know!
2. I have spent WAY too much time messing with it!
The Tifosi website appears to be long gone. I don't know of anyplace that has any information on them. So just in case anyone (like me) has a Tifosi chassis that needs assembly here are some photos of the chassis and its construction (if anybody even cares).......
The chassis basically consists of four layers of stacked plates and parts. Kind of like making a sandwich.
This is the bottom or first layer which is laminated to the bottom side of the next or second layer. I don't know what was used for adhesive to assemble this particular chassis but, it took a LOT of heat to get the first two layers of plates separated!
This bottom layer of plates seems to be used to keep the screw heads from hanging down below the bottom of the chassis. The screw heads are positioned in the cut-outs of the plate pieces. I guess that is much easier than trying to counter sink the screws in a piece of spring steel! I'm sure this layer also serves to add some desired overall weight.
I have more Womp chassis than you can shake a stick at!
Updated May 5, 2021 - Addition of rules for Classic NASCAR Class.
I'm not sure who he had machine the parts.
The motor bracket is machined aluminum.
Thanks for the tip Zack, I agree! I don't know if I have the knowledge or skill to make one of these work well, but I'm going to try to get something that works. I'm pretty sure getting one of these chassis to work well with a hardbody is beyond my skill level!
Very cool and as always a super clean build! Nice job Zack!
These photos are actually taken in the upstairs of the new shop. This room is almost identical in shape and size to the room I had for my slot car stuff in our house in Fairview. The biggest difference is actually; more stuff!
A lot of slot cars have passed through here in the last couple of years. These shelves have been full, twice!
Here's an updated photo of the display case.
I figure it's about time for an update. Here's the finished bench with the LED shop light installed.
Yes, I always thought David was a great guy!
Last I heard he moved to California. He has a Facebook page, but I have not seen anything posted by him for years.
I haven't posted in here for quite some time.......about 4 1/2 years. For some reason this section of the forum gets a lot of views! So since the last posts here so much has happened! The post just two up from this one was by our dear friend "Goose". Sadly we lost him, he passed away just a couple years ago. We have also lost one of our local slot car heroes Bob McFarland. Before Bob passed he allowed me to become the new caretaker of Checkered Flag Raceway.
Oh yeah, since those last posts in 2016 Diane and I have moved to Vancouver Washington from our place in Fairview Oregon. Too Bad Motorplex was dismantled and as far as I know is still in storage in the Corbett area of Oregon. Once we got moved up here to Vancouver we had a 28' x 30' shop built, where Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway is now housed. I have finally finished all the revisions I wanted to make to the track and we have held two OSCAR races, a PASER race, and a Northwest True Scale race on the track so far. I purchased "Goose's" entire slot car collection and am still selling off the excess. At this point in time I figure I must still have somewhere around 1,000 to 2,000 slot cars in all scales, all makes, all types, old and new.
We're over one year into this COVID 19 pandemic thing. Diane and I are good, we have both been shot, twice. We finally have most everything we wanted to do to our house done, inside and out. It's been a long process but we are finally getting into a more normal routine, well as normal as the current COVID situation will allow. This evening for some reason I was drawn to the NASTE website's Forum and I began reading some of the old posts. So here I sit typing away.
Now I know I should focus on building and working on the cars I actually race, but sometimes I just can't help myself from taking off after a rabbit........or two.....Zack made an excellent comment, and I think it probably applies to me. He said "some guys biggest problems with their race program is they have too many cars."....Yup, that would probably be me!
But what can I say, I love them all and especially old stuff! Anyway I have no idea where my Tifosi project is going, where it will end up, or when. But for right now it's on the bench.......Good news, I got my Porsche 962 Scholer chassis work completed! That one is race ready again!
Check out this monster Tifosi motor bracket!
Part of the design and philosophy of the Tifosi chassis was that by purchasing additional plates and or modifying them, you could configure the chassis to fit various bodies and classes of racing. The chassis could also be tuned by adding different plates and parts.
Here's a couple photos of another complete chassis I have (luckily I have more chassis that are complete so I can figure out how the hell to put the one I tore apart back together!).
At sometime in the early 2000's, one of my local slot car heroes had a dream. He wanted to develop and manufacture a bolt together slot car chassis that could compete with the scratchbuilt brass chassis being built and raced in the Pacific Northwest. That is a tall order but Dave Naylor felt he could achieve that goal. The chassis design he came up with was a piece of art in my opinion. They always fascinated me with their precise and intricate machining work and parts design. One of the drawbacks for me at that period in time was cost. I just couldn't afford the cost of one of Dave's chassis.
Unfortunately the Tifosi Chassis never became popular. They were complicated and difficult to set up. Very few of the local racers were able to get one of the chassis up to speed. It's too bad, especially considering the time, effort, and expense Dave put into the project. But my lust and love for those chassis never ended, and as luck would have it over the last few years I have been able to pick up a few. I now consider myself an official Tifosi Chassis collector, so if you have any you want to unload, let me know.
So that brings us up to yesterday. For some reason, while I was working on my Porsche 962 Scholer chassis I decided to pull out one of my Tifosi chassis. This particular one was kind of a mess with a lot of the plates glued together. Luckily Zack had stopped by to do some testing and he gave me some great advise for tearing this particular chassis down. Out came the propane torch! Not the little one, the big one connected to map gas! After some serious heat applied I was able to separate all the different plates. Today I cleaned all the plates up using extensive amounts of Goof Off!
Here's what one of the plates/pieces looked like after I got them all separated.
These are all the plates and pieces that were used in the construction of this one chassis.
There is more to follow on this topic..............I'm just getting started............
This is just some background stuff as I was searching for some Northwest slot car history...........
These are some early videos of Dave Naylor's track during construction. Dave was the founder of Tifosi Racing here in the Pacific Northwest.
April 24, 2021 Early Modified grid.
April 24, 2021 starting grid.
Some of the usual suspects in attendance!
Thanks Howie for holding this Porsche 962 race! As usual it was an awesome event with some outstanding pizza!
Updated May 2, 2021 - Addition of rules to allow strengthening of guide tongue and axle carrier in classes that require bolt together chassis - Porsche 962, TA2, and NASTRUCK.
Thanks Chris!
NASTE 2021 Point Series Championship Race No.1 @ Rippin' Ridin' Raceway April 29, 2021
Race Results - Carrera DTM Class:
1 Al 69.4 Laps - 7 points.
2 Daniel 67.8 - 6 pts.
3 Rico 64.3 - 5 pts.
4 Tom 63.3 - 4 pts.
5 Zack 63.1 - 3 points
6 Greg 58.0 - 2 pts.
7 Mitch 55.6 - 1 pt.
Current Standings for the 2021 NASTE Point Series Championship After 1 Race:
1st Al - 7 points.
2nd Daniel - 6 pts.
3rd Rico - 5 pts.
4th Tom - 4 pts.
5th Zack - 3 pts.
6th Greg - 2 pts.
7th Mitch - 1pt.
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